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AO4 Flashcards

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Irish Revival

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Revival of Gaelic literature and reaction to English becoming the official language

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Britain

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Oppression of Ireland, Dublin had no legislative authority - growing nationalism in response to English control

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Women

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Difficulty in achieving financial independence therefore marriage is their way of gaining security

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Grace - Priest

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Mammon - concept in the New Testament describing wordly things such as wealth

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Joyce and his Irish identity

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Joyce experienced conflict with his Irishness and moved away from Ireland to live in Central Europe

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Buenos Ayres

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Euphemism for a woman entering prostitution

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Simony

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Roman Catholic Church law - selling or giving in exchange of a temporal thing for a spiritual thing

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Catechism

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Instructions in Christian doctrine by which elements of the faith are taught to children

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Absolution

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Remission of a sin by an authorised priest

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National school

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Established by British legislation - seen as anti-national and suspect in the eyes of the Catholic Church for giving education suitable for both Catholic and Protestant

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Araby

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Poetic name for Arabia - in nineteenth cent the Orient was the principal object of European romance and fantasy

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Chalice

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A cup used in the Eucharist - The Holy Grail (cup used in the Last Supper) romance quest popularised by Idylls of the King Tennyson

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Harp

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A symbol for Ireland, in poetry and ballads Ireland is portrayed as a wronged or abused woman

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I Dream I Dwelt

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The Bohemian Girl - Maria skips the stanza about marriage

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Ivy Day

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Death of Parnell - Irish parliament failed to support Parnell bc of Parnell’s mistress Jatherine O’Shea

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Grace

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Both, in Catholic theology a supernatural gift freely given by God to enable them to obtain eternal life but also the period of grace given to debtors by the person who is owed money

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Lily

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Flower symbolically associated with Archangel Gabriel who informs Mary at the Annunciation of her role in the Incarnation

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Gabriel

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Announces the coming of the Messiah to Mary

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The Daily Express

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Hoped for national development within the British Empire

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West Briton

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Anglo-Irishman who sympathises with the Unionist cause

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Gaelic

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The Irish Ireland language movement considered Gaelic the national language of Ireland - propagandist endeavour to ensure it was called Irish

Dubliners (7 decks)

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